Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia
Doreen Lee
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Description for Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia
Hardback. Doreen Lee tells the origin, experiences, and legacy of the radical Indonesian student movement that helped end Suharto's thirty-two year dictatorship in May of 1998, showing how student activists claimed their rich political and historical inheritance passed down by earlier generations of activist youth. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 3JJPR; JNMF; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 545.
In Activist Archives Doreen Lee tells the origins, experiences, and legacy of the radical Indonesian student movement that helped end the thirty-two-year dictatorship in May 1998. Lee situates the revolt as the most recent manifestation of student activists claiming a political and historical inheritance passed down by earlier generations of politicized youth. Combining historical and ethnographic analysis of "Generation 98," Lee offers rich depictions of the generational structures, nationalist sentiments, and organizational and private spaces that bound these activists together. She examines the ways the movement shaped new and youthful ways of looking, seeing, and being—found in archival documents from ... Read more
In Activist Archives Doreen Lee tells the origins, experiences, and legacy of the radical Indonesian student movement that helped end the thirty-two-year dictatorship in May 1998. Lee situates the revolt as the most recent manifestation of student activists claiming a political and historical inheritance passed down by earlier generations of politicized youth. Combining historical and ethnographic analysis of "Generation 98," Lee offers rich depictions of the generational structures, nationalist sentiments, and organizational and private spaces that bound these activists together. She examines the ways the movement shaped new and youthful ways of looking, seeing, and being—found in archival documents from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822361527
SKU
V9780822361527
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About Doreen Lee
Doreen Lee is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northeastern University.
Reviews for Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia
"... the main strength of Activist Archives is that it raises important questions by not providing all the answers. In this way, it invites frequent re-reading, creating a richer understanding of the micropolitics of student activism upon each re-read."
Yatun Sastramidjaja
Contemporary Southeast Asia
“Activist Archives can be called a definitive work that will be prized as ... Read more
Yatun Sastramidjaja
Contemporary Southeast Asia
“Activist Archives can be called a definitive work that will be prized as ... Read more